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Hi,

Tomasz Jankowski wrote:
> 
> I'm completely new to cygwin (and generally to programming for the MS
> Windows too). I'm working on a library and I need to use some socket
> API in it. I decided to prepare port for win32, but it's much harder,
> that I thought.

the basic socket API of Windows and cygwin is the same based on Berkeley.

I would not recommend to use cygwin if you want to write a plain Windows 
program.

I would recommend to use cygwin if you want to write a program for 
multiple platforms.

> 4. How does  the performance look? Will my library have really poorer
> performance if I use cygwin instead of winsock API?

This is a minor problem for thinks like this.

What is your programming background?

Erich

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